Isn't Shen Huan's remarks equivalent to throwing a bomb into the sea?
The modular construction of ships is just that, even the vertical launch system dares to be proposed, and what is even more shocking is the universal vertical launch system, you must know that this kind of universal vertical launch system, at this time in 97, even the United States has not begun to develop, and China does not even dare to think about the vertical launch system!
The current domestic destroyers do not even have a single-arm launch of a regional anti-aircraft missile, let alone a vertical launch system, and it is too difficult to develop such a vertical launch system.
So as soon as Shen Huan finished speaking, a white-haired old expert stared at Shen Huan and asked, "This little comrade, are you a little whimsical?"
It's good to have ideas, but you can't be ambitious, you have to be down-to-earth.
We don't even have a rotationally launched regional anti-aircraft missile now, so how can we come up with a vertical launch system?
” Shen Huan remembered that this old expert was an expert who had made great contributions to the development of naval weapons, and that the expert who had participated in the development of the domestically produced Haihongqi-7 air defense missile was named Zheng Zhongshan.
Faced with the scorching questions of the old experts, even Feng Haibo and Sun Chengming sweated for Shen Huan.
If you directly refute the old experts, it may make the old experts very unhappy, Shen Huan also knows that the old experts have worked hard and have a personal experience of the difficulty of developing domestic weapons and equipment.
But Shen Huan dared to say this, it is not unprepared, the development of the vertical launch system is very difficult, but it does not mean that China can't!
Because later, China did it, and even developed a co-frame launch device that did not lose to the MK57 universal vertical launch system of the United States, and applied it to the 052D ship and the 055 type 10,000-ton drive, which truly realized corner overtaking.
This kind of co-frame vertical hair device is not only different from the vertical launch system of the Type 052C destroyer's six-pack annular arrangement, but also has obvious differences from the vertical launch system of the Type 054A frigate.
The vertical launch systems of the Type 052C missile destroyer and the Type 054A missile frigate are specially designed to launch shipborne anti-aircraft missiles.
The difference is that the 052C destroyer uses cold launch, that is, using high-pressure air, using air rush to eject the missile, and then igniting the rocket engine after the missile leaves the launch tube; The 054A frigate uses a thermal launch, and the missile rocket is directly ignited and boosted in the vertical launcher to complete the launch.
Both cold and hot launches have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the development of modern warship vertical launch weapon systems has gradually formed two factions, cold and hot vertical launches, represented by Russia and China.
A 2006 military standard requires that a vertical launcher should be capable of simultaneously controlling and using the launch of four different types of guided missiles, including anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine missiles, and land-attack missiles.
It should independently guarantee the launch of missiles based on data from the ship's fire control system; It should ensure the storage and launch of missiles of three typical sizes, of which the length of large missiles does not exceed 9.9 meters, the length of medium missiles does not exceed 7 meters, and the length of small missiles does not exceed 3.3 meters.
Each frame of the vertical launcher is composed of eight launch bays, each compartment can be equipped with one to four missiles, the specific number depends on the type and size of the missile, and the installation error between the launch canister and the vertical axis of the vertical launch device does not exceed 10 degrees, the diameter of the launch canister is not more than 850 millimeters, under normal circumstances, the opening time of the launch canister cover is not more than three seconds, and the opening angle is not less than 95 degrees.
This standard was first applied to the design and construction of the 052D missile destroyer.
It can be said that the 052D is China's first new surface combat ship built and developed in accordance with military standards.
The "one pit, multiple bombs" design of the 052D destroyer can be seen from the appearance - for the first time, the anti-ship missile launcher has been eliminated.
Therefore, Shen Huan dared to say such a thing in '97, because he believed that the Chinese military workers were not stupid, and with the new weapon design concepts of Europe and the United States being accepted by the Chinese military workers, it was not difficult to achieve a universal vertical launch system.
Of course, for the current Chinese military workers, even ordinary cold-launch vertical launch systems are difficult to reach the sky.
Shen Huan thought for a while, and then said confidently: "Old man, I think our military workers still have the ability to develop our own vertical launch system, or even a general vertical launch system.
Although we don't have it now, when we design and build our 052B destroyer, we can leave design redundancy for future upgrades, and once our domestic vertical hair is successfully developed, we can modify our current 052B destroyer to make it more combat-capable.
The universal vertical launch system must be the development trend of the world's naval weapons and equipment in the future, because the future warships will develop in the direction of more stealth and generalization, so that a type of destroyer has a strong anti-ship, anti-submarine, air defense and even anti-missile and land attack capabilities, which must develop a universal vertical launch system, which can launch various types of missiles, and in this way, occupy the smallest space on the ship, and the shape of the warship can be designed to be more stealthy. ” Based on the military standard that a universal vertical launch system will be introduced in eight years, Shen Huan looks very confident.
Shen Huan also tried his best to make 052B more perfect, after all, in the original history, since the Navy's 052C/D and 054A were launched into service like dumplings, the status of the 052B destroyer has been very embarrassing.
In addition to tonnage, the 052B as a destroyer class has no advantage over the frigate class 054A, or even inferior.
The biggest gap is in the vertical launch system.
The 052B uses the imported 2 Shikili single-arm anti-aircraft missile launchers, while the 054A frigate is equipped with a domestic 32-unit Haihongqi 16 medium-range anti-aircraft missile vertical launch system.
There is also a 100-mm gun equipped with 052B and a 76-mm gun equipped with a 054A frigate, and the two artillery shells are almost as powerful as each other.
But the 76-mm gun has a higher rate of fire, and the advantage in air defense and anti-ship operations is more obvious, and in this indicator 054A wins.
The most critical thing is that the Russian-made missiles launched by 052B and the HHQ16 launched by 054A are both within the range of 3~55 kilometers, but the 054A frigate vertical launch system brings advantages in speed and quantity, which can attack four to eight targets at the same time, and the 054A advantage is very obvious in multi-target engagement capabilities.
So if at this time, the 052B destroyer was designed to leave design redundancy for the future replacement of domestic vertical launch systems, then its position would not be so awkward.
Faced with Shen Huan's words, the old expert was immediately speechless, and he didn't know how to refute this young man.